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Roy Williams - "(The second half performance) gives coaching too much credit. It wasn't a very pleasant halftime talk, but I think it boiled down to we played our basketball game in the second half. In the first half we were too tentative. They were more aggressive. They were quicker to the rebounds, quicker to the loose balls. We dropped passes. We kicked it off our foot out of bounds. We turned around and handed it to them, and we were not very intense in the first half. Then in the second half I thought we were totally opposite. We were very intense. We even had some plays that weren't successful but still we were right there with them. "I talked to the team before the game and told them rebounding was going to be a big part of the basketball game. But in the first half they were quicker to the ball and more aggressive to it, and in the second half we turned around. "(Fortson) had 16 points at halftime and just about fouled out our whole team. Danny's a heck of a player, and what I like about him is he's not a prima donna. He's a guy that brings his lunch pail. He works for his stuff. He doesn't talk trash. He just plays his butt off." UC coach Bob Huggins - "I told our guys Roy is a great coach, and that's a great team. If you think they'll lay down, they won't. We didn't match their emotion. They took us out of what we wanted to do in the second half. "We couldn't get (Fortson) in the game (trying to stop an 18-2 KU run in the second half). He sat at the scorer's table for two or three possessions. I should have had our point guard foul so he would stop the penetration. If he can't stop the penetration (by Robertson), I should get him the hell out of the game. "Let's don't kid anybody: we can't rebound the ball if (Fortson) is off the floor. "Burton goes 2-17, and Flint goes 3-14. How the hell we going to win if they don't make some shots? "I just want to say Kansas deserves to be the #1 team. They've got a great coach and great players. They do a great job. They took the fight to us. In the second half we didn't respond. I want to give them all the credit in the world."